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Commercial management of projects : defining the discipline /

This is the first book to establish a theoretical framework for commercial management. It argues that managing the contractual and commercial issues of projects - from project inception to completion - is vital in linking operations at the project level and the multiple projects (portfolios/ program...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Other Authors: Lowe, David., Leiringer, Roine.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
Subjects:
Project management.
Industrial management.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Project Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Project Management.
Electronic books.
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • Commercial management : defining a discipline? / David Lowe, Roine Leiringer
  • Part 1 : External milieu
  • Introduction to Part 1 / David Lowe, Roine Leiringer
  • Competition / Hedley Smyth
  • Culture / Richard Fellows
  • Procurement in the context of commercial management / David Langford, Mike Murray
  • Part 2 : Corporate milieu
  • Introduction to Part 2 / David Lowe, Roine Leiringer
  • Corporate governance and shareholder value / Mark Georgen, Luc Renneboog
  • Strategies for solutions / Andrew Davies and Michael Hobday
  • The effectiveness of marketing spend / Chris Preece, Krisen Moodley, Michael Brown
  • Trust and commercial managers : influences and impacts
  • Will Swan, Peter McDermott, Malik Khalfan
  • Outsourcing / Jan Bröchner
  • Part 3 : Projects milieu / David Lowe, Roine Leiringer
  • Management of uncertainty / Kalle Kähkönen
  • Conflict management and dispute resolution / Peter Fenn
  • Performance measurement / Malcolm Horner
  • Value management of complex projects / John Kelly
  • Part 4 : Project milieu / David Lowe, Roine Leiringer
  • The governance of project coalitions : towards a research agenda / Graham M. Winch
  • Contract management / Will Hughes
  • Bidding / David Lowe, Martin Skitmore
  • Strategic purchasing and supply chain management in the project environment : theory and practice / Andrew Cox, Paul Ireland
  • Cost value reconciliation : signals from site embodied logic and management accounting on construction projects / David Hughill, Andy Ross
  • Afterword : identifying and defining a new inter-disciplinary research agenda for commercial management / David Lowe.

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